jhgraham3

cjmoran

ryancooke wrote:Is this a pretty good basic laptop? Thought about buying the $500 dollar one off of sellout.woot last week but was out of my price range for now.
I think I want this but everyone's complaining

Best Buy has a ASUS, better quality than HP, with better specs and an HDMI out for $349. It's a 15" but it's new, and has great battery life.

theguruguys

For the price, the processor in this is not very bad at all. It scores 1529 over at Passmark. This puts it around the same speed as a Intel Core2 Duo E6700 @ 2.66GHz. This will be plenty fast to get all the basic business/school tasks done and browse the web just fine.

This is one of the better notebook as far as price/value is concerned that has shown up on woot! lately, but I still can't recommend HP.

theguruguys

ksabato wrote:No, it's even slower than your Core 2 Duo. The tech in this came out before the Core 2 Duo and WAY before the i-series.

Depends on what applications you are using it with and which exact processor you are comparing it to. For instance, this processor is faster than the lower end i series mobile processors like the Intel Core i7 620UM @ 1.07GHz and Intel Core i3 380UM @ 1.33GHz. It is almost the same speed as a Intel Core2 Duo P8400 @ 2.26GHz and faster than a Intel Core2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33GHz when it comes to the passmark scores.

theguruguys

jyoz22 wrote:Not necessarily. The biggest mistake people make when they look at a processor and compare it is just look at its name. Just because it says i5 does not make it more powerful than an i3 for example. A premium i3 and newer generation can be more powerful than a older i5 processor. I always search around and look for benchmark results to compare processors.

I posted earlier linking to benchmark results for this processor, you may notice that it actually has more power than an i3 380UM and an i3 330UM processor.

Exactly (sorry I said the same thin in another post before I read yours). At least twice chance someone will learn though however.

virtual1one

That's gotta be the closest macbook pro design ripoff I've seen so far. They even put a nice round white HP logo right where the white apple usually is. Though in their defense there's nothing that quite says "not actually an Apple product" like a baby picking its nose on the screen.

cheruvim

This is a great deal but woot uses FedEx Home Delivery as its primary shipper. This means it would probably get cerried off by the first poooony they gave it to. The never can make sure that poooony is the recepient.

They suck, you take big risk ordering from here. Not because Woot is bad. Its FedEx that's bad.

tommybluez

ryancooke wrote:Is this a pretty good basic laptop? Thought about buying the $500 dollar one off of sellout.woot last week but was out of my price range for now.
I think I want this but everyone's complaining

I bought the exact same one about a year ago at Staples. They had it for $579-$100 Mail In - $100 Trade in for a working desktop/laptop. I got it for $379. This is the first time I've seen this same one for this price, I think I got a great deal. I've seen the same/similar at best buy etc, for around 450-500.

Getting back to the laptop. I think it's been awesome. The screen is big and bright, it's got pretty good battery life, i'd say about 4 solid hours with screen on max bright. (from what i remember I don't use it on battery often)

I use it for web, DVD playback, CD/DVD Burning, Office, Netflix etc. I've never had any hiccups or problems... I typically have 2 Chrome windows open with 10-15 tabs a piece, can still watch videos or work on Word.

Now, the trackpad, does suck. It's the same texture as the whole laptop and it takes some getting used to. That said, it's usable. I have a small mouse with a usb wireless receiver i keep around.

It's my main home machine, so I love the HDMI out --- I use my 50" plasma as a monitor, the PC is in my office and I ran an HDMI cable to the TV, so I use it in my living room with the TV and a wireless/keyboard/mouse combo.

At anyrate, I would buy another one at this price! One last thing - if you plan to carry/travel a lot - remember it IS a big laptop - it's got a 17.3" screen.

tommybluez

Great Solid Machine for the price. Bought mine a year ago with a rebate and trade-in for the same price. Haven't seen this price again since today. Web, DVD Playback, HDMI out, Office (not included), big hard drive for a laptop, very happy! (I concur the trackpad is not the best, I have a little wireless mouse i use.)

marvjl

They listened to you. I just saw a news story that they are to buy Autonomy and try to sell their computer division.

Kao1138 wrote:Funny. A few hours ago Woot was mentioned in an article about how HP only sold 10% of the tablets they sent to Best Buy for sale (25,000 out of 250,000) and only 612 sold on Woot, despite selling them for $50-$100 off at Best Buy and $120 off on Woot.

IMHO HP should go back to making printers. They make a decent printer on par with Epson, and that goes for their scanners and all-in-ones as well, but they suck at doing anything else.

chakolate

I got this from woot a few months ago, and it's telling me the hard drive needs to be replaced. The speakers are tinny, and the touchpad is awful: you can't tell by feel when you are off the touch pad, and it is supersensitive sometimes, so that when you think you're moving the cursor, you're actually clicking.

Except for the hard drive needing to be replaced, it suited my needs and my budget. But that's a big 'except'. Sigh.

rproffitt1955

I had the i5 based G62 which is similar and had a bug in the Insyde BIOS. This machine and others with that BIOS would not boot with my HTC EVO 4G plugged in. HP was hopeless on this as they replied "We buy the BIOS."

The Trackpad was fine for me but HP destroyed the laptop in their service department so I'm out one laptop.

Fumanshoo

tommybluez wrote:I agree on the trackpad, but the keyboard is great - I have no issues with it.

I'm assuming you haven't looked at the new generation of keyboard layouts, ergonomics, and feel.

The problem with this laptop's keyboard is the old style button press/keystroke; the keys butted up against one another, the keystroke has a soft, thin-plasticy feel to it. This older style (on low budget models like this one) sometimes lends to unregistered keystrokes for the faster typist.

The newer keyboard layouts mimic the texture, feel, and keystroke action of today's Macbooks. The keys are also spaced out that lends to a more natural and accurate keystroke. The keystroke also has a more solid feel once it bottom's out.

This feature may seem meaningless to you, but if you were to type on one of these laptops and then go back to that HP laptop, you would see exactly what I am talking about.

Jason Toon

Sorry if there's been a misunderstanding. The license on the Flickr page states that we are free "to make commercial use of the work" as long as we "attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor".

As specified on your Flickr profile, we added a credit at the bottom of our front page and at the bottom of the blog post for this particular sale that both links to the photo page and credits you by name - although we probably should have named you as "Michael Glasgow" as you asked, and not "M. Glasgow". I'll fix that part now.

Is there something else I've misunderstood here? Again, sorry if there's any confusion. All we can do is go by what we see on Flickr.

tmlange

iceplusplus wrote:THE BIG PROBLEM IS NO WEBCAM. WHY WOULD ANY COMPANY MAKE A MACHINE WITHOUT A WEBCAM NOW? THAT IS WHY IT IS ON WOOT. THEY CAN'T SELL IT BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HAVE A WEBCAM! AND THEY GET TONS OF RETURNS ON THEM BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IT.

stevef2222

mesostinky

theguruguys wrote:Depends on what applications you are using it with and which exact processor you are comparing it to. For instance, this processor is faster than the lower end i series mobile processors like the Intel Core i7 620UM @ 1.07GHz and Intel Core i3 380UM @ 1.33GHz. It is almost the same speed as a Intel Core2 Duo P8400 @ 2.26GHz and faster than a Intel Core2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33GHz when it comes to the passmark scores.

Ignoring people asking for a Sandy Bridge i cpu at $379, I think that's a fair price and its plenty fast based on that score. That's easily enough power for a day to day laptop for most people. Windows 7 on that setup will hum just fine.

Everyone would love to see this at $279 but that's not gonna happen.

edit: what's with everyone being like, its "ok for my OMGOMGOMGPONIESOMG PONIES! grandfather who just plays hearts all day". Beyond gaming and hd video editing there isn't anything you couldn't use this for.

jacvoyt

sdc100 wrote:It's fine for someone who has low processing needs, doesn't need portability but has no room (or need) for a desktop. This also saves energy, and offer enough portability to easy go from room to room. I think many parents and grandparents fit this category. They can email, videochat with the family, websurf, check out some videos, word process, etc. And yes, it's powerful enough to watch DVDs too. For $379, why not recommend it?

I can't recommend it because the user experience with this machine is horrible. Of course it will allow you to basic things like go online/write papers/video chat, but so will any computer made in the last 5 years. That said, people buy computers to use over time. Every time I used this computer it was a test of my patience. You can't differentiate where the trackpad starts and where it ends. Every time you touch anything on the machine it makes that hollow cheap plastic sound. The screen resolution dimensions seem off. Typing on it is uncomfortable. For a basic use machine that is always plugged in, why not just buy used or buy a better machine for $399.

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